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Do those use cases need LLMs? Probably not.

One of the points of the article is the importance of gathering data to support your conclusions.

prompts can change more easily than training data

Training data is real, and prompts are not. I don’t think this is an apples to apples comparison.

I don't disagree that very numerical tasks like revenue forecasting are not a good fit for LLMs. But neither did a lot of data scientist concerns themselves with such things (compared to business analysts and the like). Software to achieve this has been commoditized.

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